Dr Krista Halttunen

Career Development Fellowship in Sustainable Finance

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Dr Krista Halttunen is a Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Krista's research focuses on transition finance and shareholder engagement for sustainability. Her other research interests include topics across the fields of energy systems, sustainability transitions, and sustainability in business.

Krista holds a PhD in Environmental Policy from Imperial College London, where she researched the future of international oil companies in the sustainability transition. She also has degrees in Physics and Philosophy (MPhysPhil) from Balliol College, Oxford, and Environmental Technology (MSc) from Imperial. Before her academic career, Krista worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a policy manager at Ofgem. She is also a family entrepreneur and a member of the Board of Directors at Halton Group, a global industrial company specialising in indoor air solutions for demanding spaces.

Publications

Journal (5)

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Halttunen K, Slade R and Staffell I, ‘Diversify or Die: Strategy Options for Oil Majors in the Sustainable Energy Transition’ (2023) 104 Energy Research and Social Science

Tillotson P, Slade R, Staffell I, and others, ‘Deactivating Climate Activism? The Seven Strategies Oil and Gas Majors Use to Counter Rising Shareholder Action’ (2023) 103 ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Halttunen K, Slade R and Staffell I, ‘What If We Never Run Out of Oil? From Certainty of "peak Oil" to "peak demand".’ (2022) 85 Energy research & social science 102407

Halttunen K, Slade R and Staffell I, ‘"We don’t Want to Be the Bad guys": Oil industry’s Sensemaking of the Sustainability Transition Paradox’ (2022) 92 ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Bricout A, Slade R, Staffell I, and others, ‘From the Geopolitics of Oil and Gas to the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition: Is There a Role for European Supermajors?’ (2022) 88 ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE